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---Downtown---

Raven and Nightwing were surveying the traffic below, Nightwing using his enhanced optics in his mask while Raven used her magic to detect souls.

“Seems those two found Deathstroke,” Nightwing said, stressed about Batman fighting Deathstroke all on his own as Robin was knocked out before the fight began.

Thanks to special recording devices within their lenses, he and the rest of the bat family can see what each other can see.

“We can’t help them because we need to find Jon” Raven said, keeping Nightwing with the task at hand.

Suddenly, Raven falls to the ground, holding onto her head as she screams out in pain, scaring Nightwing as he rushes to help her.

“Raven, what the hell is happening?” Nightwing frantically asks.

“Your deaths is what’s about to happen” A dark, femenine voice calls out.

Nightwing turns around to see the female sorcerer, Circe, an enemy of Wonder Woman, sent to kill them by no one knows who.

She forms a purple lightning bolt in her hands and throws like a javelin right at them but the focus on making the bolt allowed Raven to break free of the mind hacking which allowed Raven to form a small barrier that was only enough to stop the bolt from killing them as the shockwave sends the two flying off of the roof.

Raven managed to use her magic to keep her flying while Nightwing used his grappling hook, using himself as a pendulum to swing into a window.

As he slammed through the window, the cable snapped as he starts roling across the office area, scaring dozens of office workers as they wondered what was happening.

“What the fuck?!” One of the office workers screams out.

Meanwhile outside, Raven faced Circe without Nightwing “What do you want with Jon, Circe?” She asks, preparing a magic attack.

“I don’t want anything to do with Jon, I was just offered information on new forms of dark magic” Circe says in her seducing, sinister voice.

Raven grits her teeth as she stretches her arm out, palm open and shouts “Azarath metrion zinthos!!” As a black beam of magic rushes out of her palm, aiming to harm Circe as much as possible in the first strike.

Circe then disappears out of sight, causing Raven to retract her arm as then immediately, she reappears behind Raven with a war hammer made of magic.

She slams Raven with it, sending her crashing into the street, hundreds of meters below.

As Raven was crashing towards the ground, she used her magic to move civilians out of the way with the strength she had left as then lands on her front side, creating a small crater in the sidewalk, already half passed out not even a minute into the fight.

Circe looked down, giving a sinister grin as she already knocked her biggest threat out of the fight as she turns around to see Nightwing who had just managed to get back onto the roof via the staircase.

Nightwing throws a batarang at her, hoping to cause some damage as she simply ricochets it by forcing the wind to slow it down completely, then uses telekinesis to throw it back at him.

Nightwing dodges it by slipping to his right and starts running towards the edge of the building, Circe was not keen on immediately killing someone so defenseless simply wants to watch what he would do.

He jumps down, heading directly towards Raven as he quickly uses his wingsuit integrated in his suit as Circe realizes what he is doing.

She fires off magic projectiles in a panic, hoping to kill Nightwing as he injects adrenaline into Raven, making Raven to quickly get up and block the projectiles.

“Nightwing, get to Batman, I’ll handle this from here,” Raven says to him, opening a portal for him to get close to Batman position.

Raven then uses her instant teleportation to right in front of Circe, with a magic blast ready at hand, Raven fires it right into Circe's face.

The explosion catches both women, however, it managed to damage Circe more than Raven who already took enough from Circes initial attack.

The smoke clears and it is apparent that Circe has taken visible damage, her clothes were covered in sut and tears across the well-crafted dress with bruising all over body.

“You bitch!” Circe howled as she attempted an open-palm strike at Raven's abdomen, missing as Raven simply levitated backward.

Raven signals Circe to get closer as Circe, out of rage starts rapid firing energy beams at her, forcing Raven to form an energy sword around her hand to start using it to deflect the beams up towards the sky to avoid casualties but accidentally sent several flying towards the traffic below, causing her to lose focus and form a shield for the civilians.

It successfully absorbs the beams but her focus on the shield caused the rest of the beams that Circe was firing to hit their mark, hitting all over her body.

Raven screams out in agony as she then summons all of her might “AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS!” Screaming as she brings down a black lightning bolt upon Circe, causing her to cease the energy beam bombardment.

Circe crashes to the ground as Raven does, both tired from the amount of magic they have used and the hits they have taken.

“So you are helping an intergang to kidnap and probably kill a ten-year-old kid, just so you can some petty revenge on Wonder Woman?” Raven shouts, coughing out some blood exploiting Circe's anger and causing a reckless reaction.

Circe uses her instant teleportation to get behind Raven, with an energy war hammer ready at hand, she brings down on Raven.

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Raven turns around and uses one hand to form an energy shield as she uses the other to pick up an empty car, using it to slam Circe away from her.

Circe skids across the asphalt, bouncing on like a pebble against water as she quickly positions herself to use her magic hammer, slamming it down and quickly bringing her to a stop.

Raven teleports behind her, laying down as she delivers a powerful, magic infused kick into her back, sending Circe flying upwards.

“There’s more where that came from!” Raven shouts, flying towards Circe as she cups her hands to her side as a black ball of energy forms between both hands.

Circe manages to turn back around in time as she forms an energy ball of her own, creating one the size of a house and throws it Raven.

“If that ball hits the ground, there’s no telling what damage it could do to the city. Wait, instead of fighting it…” Raven thinks to herself as she stops forming her magic attack.

“Azarath Metrion Zinthos!” Raven unleashesunleases a giant bird as it consumes the giant energy ball, looking directly at Circe and firing it back like a dragons flame breath.

Circe grits her teeth as she fires back a green beam of magic, countering her own magic attack that was being used by Raven.

Raven seeing that she was being pushed back thought of an idea, putting both hands stretched out, she pushed the giant bird she created with her magic closer to Circe.

“Grrr, you… won’t… win!” Circe grunts, pushing back the attack.

Raven attempts to push back again but she notices that their back-and-forth fight is starting to tear away at downtown, cars exploding as their fuel overheats inside them, buildings collapsing from the force, worst of all, civilians getting in the cross fire.

“Hraah!!” Raven screamed, using all of her strength to form a sphere around the giant bird and Circes attack, as she quickly motions with her arms to send it upwards.

The purple sphere quickly shrinks on itself with Raven focusing completely on trying to shrink the sphere out of existence.

Circe sees that Raven is distracted as she creates another attack.

---Port---

Doomguy stood the top of the cargo ship he is raiding as he aligned his railgun scope with Circe being in the middle of the reticle, hoping to provide Raven a decisive advantage. He squeezes the trigger as the railgun charges up a shot and fires, a beam of blue light leaves the muzzle at speeds invisible to the human eye.

The shot lands directly against Circe, sending her flying into a building as he switches on comms to talk with Raven “Thank me when you kill her,” Doomguy said, not knowing that Raven has a no-kill code.

“Get back to securing the bomb in that ship” Superman orders over comms.

“Okay, but I have a question,” Doomguy asks as he jumps down onto the deck of the ship “Why didn’t you go help Raven?”

“Because I am vulnerable to powerful magic attacks,” Superman says, exposing one of his major weaknesses.

“Thank god for the emphasis on powerful magic attacks or else everyone who hates you would have become circus magicians” Doomguy chuckles.

Doomguy approaches a door and kicks it down as it leads to a staircase down toward the crate that contains a bomb powerful enough to wipe out the port.

He had already killed the intergang patrol on the ship and thrown their bodies overboard while Superman was paying attention to the vehicles coming in and out of the port..

As Doomguy approached the opened crate, he noticed something very bad and something that will jeopardizejeopordize the entire mission to rescue Jon, the bomb was missing, a bomb powerful enough to wipe out the port was missing after he had just secured it.

The spacehog stopped as there was no one to accelerate it, allowing doomguy to freefall and then fire his meathook into a stack of crates.

As he got on top the crate stack, he looked down to see Jon being taken out of the van by intergang infantry in kryptonite cuffs, tattered and torn clothes, and injuries all over him.

But before he could move, the Spacehog flew into his back, pushing him toward the ground but as he was being pushed towards the ground, he managed to flip his body around so that he would be facing the spacehog.

The motorcycle pushes him into the ground, preventing him from getting up and rescuing Jon from intergang.

Doomguy tries pulling the spacehog off of him but the force that it was pushing into him was too strong and the material was nigh unbreakable.

“Superman… the bomb is missing,” Doomguy said, worrying for the worst as his eyes widened.

“What? Find it!” Superman orders.

Doomguy then started hearing the starting sound of a motorcycle as Doomguy simply sighs and turns around with his rocket launcher in hand.

“Either come out or say hello to Jesus for me” Doomguy says, not phased by whatever was in the dark as he holds his rocket launcher over his shoulder.

“Tell Jesus the main man sent ya!” A gruff voice shouted out from the dark as the motorcycle rapidly approached.

Doomguy fired a rocket, blind in the dark as the light from the flames of the exhaust lit up the surrounding corridor as it streaked towards its target, making its mark but the sound of the motorcycle engine didn’t stop, instead, it became faster as whoever Doomguy was fighting flew through the fireball on his motorcycle.

The explosion tore through the ship but also lit up the area long enough to see the person whom Doomguy was fighting, his enemy had a prominent jawline, chalk gray skin, eyes shrouded completely in red, and was dressed like an eighties Harley bike rider, Lobo, a famous intergalactic mercenary was Doomguys opponent.

With Lobo already closing the distance between them, Doomguy used the last moments left before inevitably being slammed by the speeding spacehog to switch from his rocket launch to super shotgun.

But right before he was able to get a full-powered shot into Lobo or his spacehog with the super shotgun, the spacehog slammed into him, dragging him along as both of them exit the ship, tearing a hole through the hole while leaving an explosion in the process.

Superman notices the explosion and Lobo but he also notices that the van containing Jon had just arrived so he took a gamble and flies in a straight B-line for Lobo, taking him off the spacehog in an effort to distract him long enough for Doomguy to rescue Jon.

“The van is here, I’ll keep Lobo off of you!” Superman shouted, flying as fast as he could to move Lobo as far away as possible from the port.

The spacehog stops pushing Doomguy, allowing him to open a portal and fall through it, landing just a hundred meters away from the van as he sees intergang agents bring out Jon who was covered in injuries, cuts, his clothes that he was wearing on their trip to the movie theaters torn up, and in kryptonite cuffs.

But he also notices someone else, Lex Luthor who had just arrived by helicopter but it didn’t bother Doomguy that it was Luthor behind it all but what made him so confident to let the van through to the port, knowing Superman and his presence?

“I knew you were behind those attacks Luthor!” Doomguy roared out as he walked towards them with his super shotgun.

“Behind the attacks, no, kidnapping Jon, yes” Luthor replied as he buttons up his suit jacket, wearing very formal clothes to express his confidence.

Doomguy started running at them but Luthor clicked a button on his watch that opened two boomtubes as two large monsters floated out of them.

The monsters were missing legs that were replaced with a large chassis that was similar to that of a tank but instead of tracks, it had exhaust points that made it function similarly to a jetpack.

Their faces were missing but instead had metal plating with a control what they do, both had each of their arms replaced with an assortment of weapons.

“I hope you enjoy my creations, I originally intended them for Superman but I had to make last minute to your liking, Doomguy” Luthor snickered, turning his back away as his security detail takes Jon onto his helicopter.

These monsters that were in front of him were all too familiar, striking heavy resemblance to the Doom hunters, monsters that were also machine made by the deceased sentinel priest, Deag ranak, perhaps Doomguys presence is bringing old enemies as new.